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AtomAndBrad

06-26-2007, 08:13 AM

I was talking to my girlfriend about this since she is planning on attending Columbia to study film editing. It made both of us start to wonder what an editors demo reel would look like, especially if most of the experience is with editing films.. My first assumption would be things like commercials/spots, but it just makes me wonder what you would show if your main proficiency was in editing feature length films... Just short/specific scenes? It makes me curious. Any ideas/examples?

timothyc

07-03-2007, 07:31 AM

I don't have your answer, just dropping in to sympathise.

Yeah, there are 2 parts to editing: the flashy stuff and the storytelling stuff. The flashy stuff would fall quite neatly into a showreel, the obvious things would be the TV commercials like you said, but also music videos, or any kind of montage really (specially when it's set to music), and heavy action scenes. But trying to show off your ability to support your director with good character development, dramatic pacing and structure just can't be done in a reel. The film editing of a drama is really the final polish to the screenplay. You'd really have to supply a copy of the complete film and hope they take the time to view it. But then, most feature director's don't audition reels anyway, they hire editors based on work they've seen before, word of mouth, prior relationships etc.

TC

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